coding-interview-university

Being self taught, I often wonder the same thing. I don't know that this is "THE ANSWER" but I was impressed by the job done here of curating a bunch of disparate CS materials (including some from the universities you mention) into some kind of structured learning approach https://github.com/jwasham/coding-interview-university As the url suggests, it's got an agenda about interview prep but the materials do not - they're straight up CS resources. Like I said, this may not be exactly what you want, but it could be helpful. On a different note, I have completed the Stanford Algorithms Course part 1 (currently working on part 2) and I can recommend it.

Lots of questions if you care to answer: What does the curriculum look like? I’m on a phone and it wasn’t obvious What percentage take the course and don’t succeed at getting a job offer? What percentage get a FAANG level offer? What does the typical successful “candidate” look like that takes the course? How is this better than just doing leetcode/CTCI/CIU[0]? How does this differ from /better than similar programs like techlead’s one[1] What happens if you pay the $8k upfront and fail to get an offer? [0] https://github.com/jwasham/coding-interview-university [1] https://www.techseries.dev/ Edit: FYI your domain is 1 letter away from https://www.codebreakeracademy.com (which is a very different thing)

You are on the right track in terms of preparing for a FAANMG-level interview. But it pains me to say that this just only meets the bare-minimum that they are looking for as in to prove that you can 'program' as the other thousands more candidates will be applying too. What you need to differentiate yourself is to learn the undocumented dark arts for whiteboard interviews that the FAANMG are really looking for in a technical interview. Firstly, [0] explains where these data structures are used in Computer Science and should be a start on implementing them and understanding their complexities and use-cases. The rest from [1 - 4] goes straight into the advanced details of areas like competitive-programming which will give you explanations and clever solutions which are better than the typical DS and algorithm answers that even the interview

Start from here: https://github.com/jwasham/coding-interview-university When studying from this, choose only to learn the optimal data structures and algorithms, understand why the other solutions are bad and then find out where these concepts are applied in several open-source projects. Once you have completed the essentials, solve the puzzles in Hackerrank and Leetcode, before the interview. To be honest, I dislike this sort of interviewing for DS/Algos unless the company can justify using them other than for a secret IQ test or another candidate filtering technique. If it were me, I'd just ask for links to significant open-source contributions instead of this nonsense.

My background is mostly frontend development and I'm always looking to learn more about C.S. fundamentals and how JavaScript libraries can be used for full-scale app development. I find myself checking out the following from time to time: https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld https://github.com/prakhar1989/awesome-courses/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/jwasham/coding-interview-university Any good gems out there you recommend?

My background is mostly frontend development and I'm always looking to learn more about C.S. fundamentals and how JS libraries can be practically used for app development. I find myself checking out the following from time to time: https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld https://github.com/prakhar1989/awesome-courses/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/jwasham/coding-interview-university Any good gems out there you recommend?

I'm always looking to expand my knowledge of CS fundamentals, JavaScript and best software engineering practices. I have several Github repos bookmarked that I find super useful and have learned a ton from... online CS courses: https://github.com/prakhar1989/awesome-courses frontend related case studies: https://github.com/andrew--r/frontend-case-studies cloning Medium.com with with different frontend + backends: https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld literally a CS university online: https://github.com/jwasham/coding-interview-university How about you?

Outstanding resource. jwasham/coding-interview-university also links to a number of also helpful OER resources: https://github.com/jwasham/coding-interview-university